Firefox 22 Beta Enables WebRTC Support

The big feature being flipped on for the Firefox 22 Beta is full WebRTC support. WebRTC is the Web Real-Time Communication API drafted by the W3C and Google for handling browser-based VoIP, video chat, file-sharing, and other services native to the browser. There was already some WebRTC support in Firefox while now the support is fully-on.

Still coming to future versions of Firefox as it concerns WebRTC is TURN support for better connections, audio/video improvements, and Firefox for Android support.

Aside from the WebRTC enhancements, Firefox 22 also brings with it OdinMonkey, a JavaScript JIT engine designed for the JavaScript sub-set used by Asm.js, dealing with the code from EmScripten.

More enhancements include support for the Web Notifications API, a new font inspector, other minor enhancements, and other bug-fixes.

Additional details on the changes to find with the Mozilla Firefox 22 Beta can be found out from the release notes.

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